Sour Fruit

Name: Sour Fruit
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ISBN: 9780008730727

Ahana Virdi

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The Borough Press
09 April 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense; Horror & ghost stories; Erotic fiction; Fiction: special features

'Feverish, devouring and provocative' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb

'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End

‘Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go’ TOBI COVENTRY, author of He’s the Devil

Love can really eat you up

Avni is done with the meaningless carousel of tame sex. Tender women repel her. Clumsy men disgust her. She wants to make her flesh electric; to fill the chasm inside her created by her mundane job, her ex who died in a bizarre tragedy, and her sick aunt, whose diseased brain is swallowing memories.

Then there’s the sour fruit, the bad meat that she craves. She longs for something to make her feel full. Something beyond all the pointless sex and depravity.

When she is sucked into the orbit of a couple who seem as unstitched as she is, Avni thinks she may have found what she is looking for. But each time she fulfils her darkest needs her appetite grows, and she begins to spiral into obsession.

There's that bone-deep ache again. Is it love? Or a different kind of hunger?

Uncompromising, unique and compulsively readable, SOUR FRUIT is the fearless debut of a major new talent.

By: Ahana Virdi
Imprint: The Borough Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780008730727
ISBN 10: 0008730725
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 09 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Like her protagonist, Ahana Virdi is a queer British woman of Indian origin, where the similarities with her character end. She graduated from King's College London with a B.A. in History. When she's not writing, she works as a financial analyst, wrangling with the ever-frustrating world of spreadsheets.

Reviews for Sour Fruit

'Feverish, devouring and provocative, Sour Fruit is an all-consuming and stunningly vulgar novel about sex and personhood. Ahana Virdi writes the kind of unflinching desire that leaves us raw, unsettled, and utterly captivated. Carnal and vile – I absolutely loved it' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb 'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End ‘Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go’ TOBI COVENTRY, author of He’s the Devil